Tuesday 10 January 2017

Sock Monsters

Disclaimer For Parents...this is a children's story, which may be scary for young children. Please check content before reading to your child. Thank you.



Sock Monsters

Socks always disappear, don’t they?

Sometimes just one of the pair will vanish, never to be seen again.

You ever wonder just where all your socks go?

Hundreds of years ago, (no-one knows exactly how long) the first books were written about socks. There are books written about almost everything, but there lots and lots have been devoted to the pieces of fabric worn on a person’s feet. It seems that throughout history, people have always struggled to keep their socks safe. I have heard of very old books which had long passages about people trying in vain to protect their socks. Some used locks, others used heavy weights, yet more hid them in weird and wonderful places.

Just one of these books has survived to this day. It is full of very strange stories, with drawings depicting little creatures running away with people’s socks. According to all of the different writers in the book, the stories are all completely true.
Some of the stories are a lot more…far-fetched than others, but they are all crazy in their special own way. Many of the earlier writers blamed ghost-like beings for the disappearance of their socks right out of the bedrooms. The weird thing about the book (which I was lucky enough to see) is that towards the end, the drawings of the creatures all look the same. Earlier in the book; the authors could not agree what they looked like. As time went on, either they came to an agreement, or they were able to get a better idea of what exactly was stealing so many socks.

The purpose of writing this essay is to inform you of what I know. There were several of these books, and I believe that there is now just one. I saw it, and my job is to report what I saw.

The book offered eye-witness accounts of people awakened in the dead of night by strange noises. Some described the pattering of feet, like those of a small child, but without a child. Others, a strange loud breathing in an otherwise empty room. More still, spoke of a scratching noise and of seeing tiny red fires moving around their bedroom, the “eyes of the creatures from Hell.”

All the stories said that as soon as the witness attempted to turn a light, use a candle or a torch, the creature would disappear into thin air. Leaving behind a lingering smell of decay and a few less socks in the room.

It is unclear what exactly these creatures (we will come to names shortly) wanted/needed socks for. What the expert writers do know is that socks were all that they seemed to be attracted to. They showed no interest in any other item of clothing or furniture. Nor did they present themselves as a danger to any person or domestic animal within the house.

Names for the creatures differ throughout the books. I have been told many different ones. Those that I saw for myself, in the Surviving Book, include “Calcetín Robar” – which is Spanish, roughly translating to ‘sock stealer’ and “Nacht-Dieb” – which is German, meaning ‘night thief’. Personally, I like to call them Calcetín – which I believe is pronounced “Cal-sight-in”.

Some wrote that the Calcetín steal the socks to use as sleeping bags to keep warm. With one writer claiming that “the Calcetín have large families – three to four hundred babies. Meaning that they need a lot of socks.” Suggesting that this is why every house in the world is missing some socks.


I offer no opinion on this. At all. How you interpret this is up to you.


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Richard Dodd is the author of the 'Fluffy the Magic Penguin' series. He also has another published children's book entitled 'The Secret  Passageway' which he co-wrote with stepson, Zack Corbin. 

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